Ms. Merritt did not reply to these messages. She smiled, put down her phone, took the ice bucket and wine glass to the screening room, poured a glass, and came to the window. She took a sip and glanced at the scenery outside the window.
It is already late at night, just like in the movie, but a faint mist fills the mountains and forests. The moonlight tonight is blocked by clouds, the earth is hazy, and the sultry air makes people feel irritated. Only the wine in hand can bring relief.
Some relief.
Sitting back on the sofa, she pressed the play button and the movie continued.
The protagonist discovered the conspiracy of the bandage men. The bandage men used some mysterious idols to confuse the crew and tried to infect the people on the ship with the plague. Fortunately, the protagonist defused it. He seemed to have mastered some special spells, which allowed people to spy on them.
A corner of the world's extraordinary power.
And in the sea, there are also unspeakable monsters lurking, which are far from being as calm as the real sea.
"Wonderful witchcraft and a very exotic world view."
Ms. Merritt did not object to the appearance of this kind of supernatural power. After all, there were monsters at the beginning of the movie, and the world view also showed that these monsters need the power of witches to purify them. It is not surprising that these mercenaries have some special abilities.
Art films have never rejected such settings. Rather, supernatural abilities are often a theme of romanticism. Even the Nobel Prize will award magical realism literature. There is some idealistic power, which is also good for artists.
No big deal.
In the movie, the bandaged men think that the time has come and prepare to launch a surprise attack. The camera looks at these people on the bow of the ship falling down and sinking into the sea. After several ups and downs, when they come up again, it is already a violent storm and the protagonist's fleet is there.
Staggering in the turbulent waves.
The unprecedented storm suddenly cheered up Ms. Merritt.
The deafening roar of thunder, the crushing huge waves hitting the wooden sailboat, just like the warm spring breeze scene at the beginning of the movie, and now the storm scene on the sea seems to overflow the screen.
Ms. Merritt couldn't help but clenched the armrests of the sofa. She felt like she was spinning, as if she was not in a villa in the French countryside, but on a boat, facing the power of nature, and she could only surrender and bend her knees.
Holding her breath, she saw the protagonist's ship break through the wind and waves again and again, but the wind and waves seemed endless and had no end at all.
At the same time, in the distance, the appearance of the enemy's pursuing fleet adds tension to the plot, and a battle is about to break out.
The protagonist finds the witch Kohaku and asks her to calm the anger of the sea.
Amber in front of the open window, her face was wet from the rain and waves, the lightning flashed, illuminating her side face, there was a beauty beyond human beings.
She responded and began to chant prayers that were like ancient songs that Ms. Merritt could not understand.
Along with this prayer, Ms. Merritt felt her heart calm down.
She saw a beam of light coming down from the majestic waves of wind and rain that could be felt through the screen.
The light penetrated the clouds, pierced the darkness, and fell on the ship where the protagonist was.
At this time, the movie gave a panoramic picture. In the dark surge, two ships, one large and one small, were churning in the waves. The warships in the distance were ready to go, and their artillery had been fired. In the sky,
The clouds were thick and lightning was brewing, but a ray of light fell from the infinite sky and illuminated the ship.
This oil painting-like picture was shocking and took Ms. Merritt's breath away, as if she were seeing the works of oil painting masters who made perfect use of color.
What is revealed in this picture is the spirit of unyielding resistance and the great will that bursts out when human beings face desperate situations.
Ms. Merritt even felt a sense of sanctity like a religious pilgrimage.
Amber at this moment makes people feel more noble than the saint who saved France a hundred years ago.
This is not just caused by special effects.
For a person with poor acting skills, even if he is given such lighting and such a scene, he will only act like he is reciting his lines. But Amber, with this majestic, solitary, aura of controlling everything, even without these violent storms around him
It is still reflected vividly and to the extreme.
At this moment, she is the most noble person in the world.
This made Ms. Merritt have a strange thought, that is, does such a saint really exist in this world, with such extraordinary powers?
However, the good times did not last long, as the enemy fleet approached and the bombardment continued, so did the bandaged men.
The protagonist's dog, a supernatural creature, also sneaked into the sea and launched an attack on the enemy's warship.
The camera changes with the movement of the dog, and it turns into a monster with tentacles and eyeballs. It shuttles through the sea and comes to the enemy warship. The tentacles grab the sailors and throw them into the sea, and they rampage on the deck.
A sailor was knocked into the cannon, and a cannonball immediately burst out from the black muzzle. The cannonball flew up at the end and hit the ship where the protagonist was on. The wood was broken, and some people were overturned by the explosion and flew up.
The perspective followed the flying man to the second floor of the cabin. A bandaged man stood in front of the window, holding out his bandage and the smoke surrounding the bandage.
The camera moves forward along with the bandage, heading towards Amber in front.
This series of long shots begins next to the protagonist and ends next to the protagonist. The camera movement is smooth, and it shows the fierce fighting and tragedy of the battle. Even Ms. Merritt, who is not interested in such battle scenes, has to admit that this sequence is quite interesting.
Wonderful, whether it is the production of special effects, the deployment of personnel, or the arrangement of storyboards, it is enough to be called excellent.
The bandaged man fought off the miko who seemed not good at fighting, interrupted her chanting, and fought back and forth with the protagonist for several paragraphs.
Soon, the bandaged man was sneak attacked by the protagonist and suffered serious fatal injuries. The smoke all over his body began to become chaotic.
A low hum sounded in Ms. Merritt's ears.
For a moment, she felt chills running down her spine, because the voice was like someone chanting in her ears, it was so real.
She hurriedly looked to her left and right. She was the only one in the huge screening room.
After taking a sip of sparkling wine, Ms. Merritt saw that the bandaged man seemed to be able to bring some kind of disaster. He fell into the water, and his whole body spread out, dyeing the already deep seawater into an ink color.
A huge black shadow appeared in the sea.
In an instant, even though the storm has not yet calmed down, even though the battle has not yet ended, the whole movie suddenly became quiet.
There was only a beating sound like a heartbeat.
The sound made Ms. Merritt feel throbbing and resonant.
